Abstract The immensity of the corpus and diversity genres Classical New Persian in Judeo-Persian garb is remarkable, comprising a wide-ranging multitude from translations Tanakh rabbinic works to chronicles, lexicographies, religious poetry, medieval Hebrew poems, large non-Jewish literature transcribed script. Yet, literary corpora remain incompletely catalogued as well unsatisfactorily studie...

This paper deals with dynamic visualization of folktales on a map. The visualization is performed using a coupling of dynamic simulation with the google earth API. The simulation is based on the DEVS (Discrete EVent system Specification) formalism. We have defined a set of basic models to perform visualization of folktales using a software framework called DEVSimPy. DEVSimPy is a framework dedi...

The present study aimed firstly at investigating the impact of translators' style on figurative language translation from English into Persian. Secondly, it intended to find which strategies were most frequently adopted by Persian translators to translate figures of speech into Persian. Lastly, the study sought to check the extent of transference of figurative features of literary texts in Engl...

In this work I suggest that fictional narratives can be used to communicate scientific ideas to society. My objectives were to measure the success of a literary work in communicating scientific ideas, to investigate the extent to which people can understand and remember science included in a short story compared to traditional factual texts and to explore the motivational dimensions of literary...

We hypothesize that cultural narratives such as myths and folktales are more likely to achieve cultural stability if they correspond to a minimally counterintuitive (MCI) cognitive template that includes mostly intuitive concepts combined with a minority of counterintuitive ones. Two studies tested this hypothesis, examining whether this template produces a memory advantage, and whether this me...

Fairy tales, folktales and more generally children stories have lately attracted the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community. As such, very few corpora exist and linguistic resources are lacking. The work presented in this paper aims at filling this gap by presenting a syntactically and semantically annotated corpus. It focuses on the linguistic analysis of a Fairy Tales Corpus, and provide...

all along history, the art and society always have interplayed. literary works especially novel are rooted in contemporary society and tell us about social, political, cultural and historical issues of a society. a realistic novel may reflect realities of its time like a mirror. the sociology of literature is aimed to explain the links between society and literature and clarifying the quality o...

undoubtedly, holy books are fundamentally and substantially different from that of written by mankind. these celestial words have categorized such holy books as the artistic and literary masterpieces of its kind. in fact, most of the language rules based on verse and literary beauty had token from aforementioned books.the method of storytelling in holy quran is in the way which by reading the s...

presented and developed in a literary way—that is, embedded in a complex human situation replete with highly charged emotions. The emotional and sometimes ambiguous context that makes these stories so pedagogically useful, however, makes some ethicists uneasy. They argue that the attention given to pain, suffering, and emotion in such literary cases can distract readers from the abstract reason...

Have hero myths and folktales influenced our interpretations of the evolutionary past? Scientists are generally aware of the influence of theory on observation. Seldom do they recognize, however, that many scientific theories are essentially narratives. The growth of a plant, the progress of a disease, the formation of a beach, the evolution of an organism – any set of events that can be arrang...